[Update] CERN's Large Hadron Collider goes live
19-07-2008, 10:16
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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They're starting to cool it down in preparation for switch on in a month or so.
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Oh big deal low temperature physicists do that 5 times before lunch. The only difference here is the huge scale.
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19-07-2008, 10:20
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
But would they be able to produce the Higgs Boson? 
Mind you, they probably wouldn't mind the budget of (up to) $10 billion. 
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19-07-2008, 10:28
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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But would they be able to produce the Higgs Boson? |
Personally I don't want them to find it, but find far more interesting things we've not thought of before.
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21-07-2008, 17:54
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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Personally I don't want them to find it, but find far more interesting things we've not thought of before.
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You're just worried they'll find out what you're made of
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21-07-2008, 23:02
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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You're just worried they'll find out what you're made of |
I was hoping they'd discover me a girlfriend  but then quarks are never observed individually, hmmmm threesome.
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21-07-2008, 23:26
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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I was hoping they'd discover me a girlfriend but then quarks are never observed individually, hmmmm threesome. |
three quarks only make a baryon - maybe you need to try a lepton
- of course it is difficult to type hadron, without making the occasional mistake when you get exited
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21-07-2008, 23:31
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
He might get a hadron if he gets lepton by another couple of quarks...
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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He might get a hadron if he gets lepton by another couple of quarks...
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22-07-2008, 00:04
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
They're all subatomic particles..
Hadron, Lepton, Quark.
Of course, as the male members  of CF have their minds in the gutter, Lepton translates to leapt on & Hadron gets the letters transposed...
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Hmm! And there was I thinking Quark was a Ferengi. 
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22-07-2008, 00:34
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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Hmm! And there was I thinking Quark was a Ferengi. |
At least you didn't think it was mycoprotein...
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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or even soft cheese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(disambiguation))
- although apparently that doesn't happen if you draw a circle round it (are circumscribed) - the LHC is a big circle
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31-07-2008, 21:00
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Megastructures premiere on the LHC is on Nat Geo now...
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31-07-2008, 21:52
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
LOL, I was just about to post that.
Watching it now...
---------- Post added at 21:52 ---------- Previous post was at 21:07 ----------
The way these programmes use strange comparisons of things, e.g. weights, always amuses me.
"The concrete roof of the shaft weighs x tonnes... that's the same as 2000 rhinos."
"That's like lowering a whole herd of elephants."
"The LHC is cooled by the biggest fridge in the world... you could put 150,000 sausages in it..."
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31-07-2008, 22:06
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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"The LHC is cooled by the biggest fridge in the world... you could put 150,000 sausages in it..."
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I wonder how many Hadrons are in a 150,000 sausages?
Then again, there must be a joke about Hadrons & sausages in there somewhere...
Seriously though, the sheer scale of that engineering was amazing!
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